Thanks for the reply. I have no clue what the First Vision is, but to be fair I know nothing about Mormonism, would have to read up more about your (previous) belief. But hey at least you got a clean slate to state looking again, and I hope you find the right one. :)

Please please please don't brush this off. We don't need another Manchester or London Bridge incident. One already is far too many. Take a few minutes to do the right thing - you don't even have to call up, everything can be done online:

Clearly she doesn't understand Islam well. But what worries me is that she's showing signs of being radicalised. You need to help her see a legit imam ASAP, and possibly look out for suspicious behaviour. Also please talk to her parents too, they need to know this is not what Islam is about.

Honest question. The last MS bluetooth mouse I used had intermittent connection at best. It's been years since then, so how good are bluetooth mouse nowadays? And can anyone recommend a good one which doesn't break the bank? (and maybe rechargeable too?)

The other comments mentioned the memorisation of oral societies and evidence from other civilisations (Aborigines), which should indicate the quality of content preservation passed down orally from one generation to another.

I'd just like to add 2 points:

1) The emphasis on oral transmission was especially important in the first few generations because these narrations were either mostly oral, or written down but not properly compiled. It is known the Quran was already written down at the time of Prophet Muhammad in fragments and bones, but compiled as a book 12 years after his death. The sayings of the Prophet meanwhile (known as hadith) relied much more on oral transmission over several generations until it the first hadith book written down ~150 years later.

2) Despite the avilability of written works, oral tradition is still a prominent feature of Islamic scholarship. Many Muslims give more authority to scholars who can trace their scholarship all the way to the Prophet Muhammad. This is because traditionally, a religious teacher cannot simply claim to be a qualified teacher himself, instead he must first be given an ijaza (permission) to teach. This ijaza is obtained from his teacher, who in turn must have received the ijaza from his, and this goes back to the Prophet.

One of the purpose of this is to ensure an added layer of uniformity to the interpretation which supplements the written works, and also a spriritual continuity among religious teachers.

The post meant to capture only Sunni schools. But of course there's many more more if we were to include other Shiites in addition to the Jaafaris (Ibadhis, Twelvers, etc), and also the less popular or extinct schools of thoughts (Zahiris, Al-Layth Bin Saad, etc).

The variety of these oral transmissions led to 10 different styles of the Quran, all which are accepted by mainstream Muslims. Interestingly enough, there are no significant differences between them.

These discoveries are thus not particularly 'new', and not some conspiracy that Muslims refuse to accept. The things mentioned in the video were well-debated today especially in academic circles concerning Quranic hermeneutics, historiography, carbon dating, etc.

Most Muslims themselves are aware of the variations arising from such debates. That's why the Islamic faith has the 10 readings of the Quran, 4 major schools of thought (stemming from different methodologies in verifying traditions), and multiple other divisions based on other factors.

In fiqh, there's a section on luqatah (لقطة). It's about what to do if you found things. Essentially it's like this:

Found something valuable: announce it for a year until the owner if found. If not, you get to keep/use it. But if the owner comes asking for it, then you need to reimburse him.

Found something negligible: like a dollar or two, or a cheap pen, whatever is reasonably deemed negligible. Then you get to keep it without asking anyone.

Note that this is for items found in a public place (forest, roads, etc). For things found in schools, subway, work, then it should be handed over to the relevant authorities (teacher, transit office, etc).